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The most famous features of the chapel, among the finest of their type in the world, are the fifteen great stained-glass windows in the nave and apse of the upper chapel, which date from the mid-13th century, as well as the later rose window (put in place in the 15th century). The stone wall surface is reduced to little more than a delicate ...
The exterior plan is very simple; the bays are separated by strong buttresses, crowned by spires, and each bay is fill with stained glass up to the beginning of the roof, where it is topped by a gable, or pointed arch. The chapel originally had a flèche from the roof at the 4th traverse, similar to that of the Paris chapel. It was destroyed in ...
The royal chapel built by Louis IX to contain his collection of Passion relics, including Christ's Crown of Thorns – one of the most important relics in medieval Christendom. It is noted especially for its towering walls of stained glass. [1] Saint-Eustache: 1 Rue de Jour (1st arrondissement of Paris) Flamboyant Gothic Parish church (1532–1640)
Saint-Bernard-de-La-Chapelle (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃.bɛʁ.naʁ.də.la.ʃa.pɛl]), is a Neo-Gothic Roman Catholic parish churchlocated at 11 rue Affre in the 18th arrondissement of Paris in the quarter known as he Goutte d'Or [1] It takes its name from Bernard de Clairvaux , a monk from Burgundy in the 12th century who reformed the Cistercian Order.
The previous chapel was demolished (shown today as an outline on the floor of the cour d'honneur of the Sorbonne), and the new chapel was established on the site of the former collège de Calvy. The architect was Jacques Lemercier [ 2 ] [ 3 ] and the dome was painted by Philippe de Champaigne , [ 4 ] [ 5 ] while François Girardon sculpted ...
The prototype for the Paris domes was the Church of the Jesu, the Jesuit church in Rome, built in 1568–84 by Giacomo della Porta. A very modest dome was created in Paris between 1608 and 1619 in the chapel of the Louanges on rue Bonaparte. (Today it is part of the structure of the École des Beaux-Arts).
In 1907 the building was updated with a new entrance at 15 rue du Quatre-Septembre, designed by Victor Laloux, who also designed the Gare d'Orsay, now the Musée d'Orsay The new entrance featured a striking rotunda with a glass dome over a floor of glass bricks, which allowed the daylight to illuminate the level below, and the three other ...
The oldest stained-glass windows, dating to about 1378, in the church are three pairs of bay windows, each with two lancets, which are found near the apse. They were originally intended for another church, the chapel of the college of Beauvais. A large part of the stained glass dates to the second part of the 15th century.